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Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz campaigned in Greenville Tuesday, one day after Iowa Republicans picked him as their favorite to be the party’s presidential nominee and one week before New Hampshire Republicans were scheduled to vote on the same question.

Cruz, a senator from Texas, found time between campaign events in New Hampshire to travel to Greenville and deliver a stump speech at the TD Convention Center.

Hundreds of voters that mostly filled a large meeting room didn’t seem to mind that he was late. They repeatedly interrupted his speech with applause.

“I’ll tell ya, South Carolina knows how to make a Texan feel at home,” Cruz declared.

Cruz came to Greenville on the same day he received the endorsement of U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan of South Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District.

Duncan told Gretchen Carlson of the Fox News Channel that Cruz is a “constitutionalist and he’s someone that shares my vision for the future of America.”

Some voters at the TD Convention Center were undecided about who to support in South Carolina’s first-in-the-South GOP presidential primary on Feb. 20.

Allen McAlister, however, said he was most certainly voting for Cruz.

“I’m pretty sold on Ted Cruz,” the 50-year-old plumber from Easley said. “I like his style. I like the fight he’s got. I like the way he stands for the Constitution.”

Cruz urged everyone in the audience to vote ten times.

“I’m not suggesting voter fraud,” he explained. “But if everyone here gets nine other people to show up on Feb. 20 and vote you will have voted ten times.”

During a brief interview with The Greenville News, Cruz said he thinks his victory in the Iowa caucuses Monday night will help his effort to win South Carolina’s primary.

He claimed Iowa and South Carolina “share very, very similar values. They are conservative states. They are states of military veterans, of gun owners who love God and are fed up with what’s happening in Washington, DC.”